Inspection Case Analysis of Natural Gas Manifold in a High Acid Gas Field

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jielu Wang ◽  
Wenming Song ◽  
Xiaoying Tang ◽  
Ju Ding ◽  
Zhe Pu
Author(s):  
Jielu Wang ◽  
Wenming Song ◽  
Xiaoying Tang ◽  
Ju Ding ◽  
Zhe Pu

Abstract Natural gas manifold is one of the key production facilities in gas field. It is used to buffer, collect and distribute natural gas in natural gas station. In the gas gathering terminal station of a high acid gas field, one of the manifolds had cracks and leakage on the surface of longitudinal welds when it ran for less than 100 hours. Several tests had been carried out of the failure weld seam. Test results analyses and theoretical analysis show that the cracking may cause by weld defects and propagated rapidly based on the mechanism of hydrogen blisters and HIC. In order to verify the conclusion of the analyses and ensure the safe operation of the gas field, an overall inspection of all the natural gas manifolds in the gas field had been carried out. The inspection results proved that there were manufacturing defects in the weld of all the manifolds in this gas field. The natural gas manifold has great influence on the safe operation of natural gas field. The poor working condition of the manifold may lead to failure and even endanger the safety of production. The case analysis in this paper provides a reference for the manifold inspection and ensures the safe operation of the gas field.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jielu Wang ◽  
Wenming Song ◽  
Xiaoying Tang ◽  
Ju Ding ◽  
Zhe Pu

ACS Omega ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nasrin Salimi Darani ◽  
Reza Mosayebi Behbahani ◽  
Yasaman Shahebrahimi ◽  
Afshin Asadi ◽  
Amir H. Mohammadi

2012 ◽  
Vol 271-272 ◽  
pp. 1328-1345
Author(s):  
Jin Li ◽  
Jian Yang Zhao

In combination with the author's experiences in design for integrated unit for natural gas field gathering and transmission, this paper describes conventional practices and technical characteristics of integrated unit in the processes of standardization design and modularization establishment and analyzes the initial application of pneumatic control ball valve, wedge-shaped flowmeter and other new technologies for surface facilities in the gas field. As a result, a new design idea is proposed in this paper, i.e., to improve the integration level of surface facilities, to minimize power consumption and maintenance works and to realize unattended work mode.


2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenxue Han ◽  
Shizhen Tao ◽  
Guoyi Hu ◽  
Weijiao Ma ◽  
Dan Liu ◽  
...  

Light hydrocarbon has abundant geochemical information, but there are few studies on it in Shenmu gas field. Taking Upper Paleozoic in Shenmu gas field as an example, authors use gas chromatography technology to study light hydrocarbon systematically. The results show that (1) The Shenmu gas field is mainly coal-derived gas, which is mixed by partial oil-derived gas due to the experiment data. (2) Based on K1, K2 parameter and Halpern star chart, the Upper Paleozoic gas in Shenmu gas field belongs to the same petroleum system and the depositional environment of natural gas source rocks should be homologous. (3) The source rocks are mainly from terrestrial higher plant origins and belong to swamp facies humic due to methyl cyclohexane index and Mango parameter intersection chart, which excluded the possibility of the Upper Paleozoic limestone as source rocks. (4) The isoheptane ranges from 1.45 to 2.69 with an average of 2.32, and n-heptane ranges from 9.48 to 17.68% with an average of 11.71%, which is below 20%. The maturity of Upper Paleozoic gas in Shenmu gas field is low-normal stage, which is consistent with Ro data. (5) The Upper Paleozoic natural gas in the Shenmu gas field did not experience prolonged migration or secondary changes, thus can be analyzed by light hydrocarbon index precisely.


2013 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 37-41
Author(s):  
Palash K Saha ◽  
Mahbubur Rahman

This paper demonstrates a method of recovering the low pressure vapor from the condensate tanks in the Bibiyana gas field. This method uses a gas ejector as a device to compress the low pressure natural gas from the condensate tanks to an intermediate pressure, which would then be fed into the intermediated stage of the existing vapor recovery unit. Thus the natural gas will be saved which would have been otherwise flared. The amount of tank vapor is estimated by different methods, which shows a significant amount of gas is now being flared. Flaring of gas is a problem which entails both economic loss and environmental concerns. It is estimated that, on the average 190 MSCFD tank vapor can be recovered using the proposed method involving a gas ejector. Thus yearly saving would be about 68 MMSCF of natural gas. The equivalent heat energy saving is about 74.55X109 BTU. In terms of greenhouse gas emissions, this project will reduce about 1,112 tons of CO2 emissions per year in the gas plant locality. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jce.v27i1.15856 Journal of Chemical Engineering, IEB Vol. ChE. 27, No. 1, June 2012: 37-41


2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Yansen Hartanto ◽  
Tri Partono Adhi ◽  
Antonius Indarto

Acid gas removal to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) in natural gas is one of the most important processes. The common removal process of CO2 from natural gas by using alkanolamine solution This process was adopted as basic module in commercial process simulation tools with various equilibrium models. Thus, this study was focused to evaluate the validity in certain operating condition and equilibrium model that produced by commercial simulation tools. The model in this study included coefficient activity model based on Kent-Eisenberg, Li-Mather, and Electrolyte Non Random Two Liquid (NRTL). The evaluation was conducted by doing analysis from simulation result and experiment data that have been used as reference. Furthermore, validation test in absorption process simulation was done to compare column temperature profile. The overall conclusions show that electrolyte NRTL gives the most accurate result.


Author(s):  
Noriyuki Muraoka ◽  
Yuji Hayashi ◽  
Katsuhiro Nakamura ◽  
Toshiaki Yamaguchi ◽  
Kazunori Ono ◽  
...  

Abstract. In the Southern Kanto Gas Field, natural gas dissolved in water has been produced for over 80 years. In order to produce the natural gas dissolved in water, formation water must be pumped from a reservoir in the gas field. The production of formation water is considered to be one of the causes of land subsidence. Because brine injection into shallow formations is expected to be effective to mitigate land subsidence, our association is planning to conduct the pilot test study. In this test, the production and injection of brine are going to be performed, and we will observe a deformation of the shallow formation and a change of ground level and the bottom hole pressure. As a result of these tests, if the land subsidence mitigation effect by injection into shallow formation is confirmed, it is expected that it will be connected to increased production and to reservoir management in consideration of land subsidence mitigation in the future.


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